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Converbs and Adverbial Clauses: A Case Study in Cantonese Cover

Converbs and Adverbial Clauses: A Case Study in Cantonese

By: Ka-Fai Yip  
Open Access
|Feb 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2022-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2470-8275 | Journal ISSN: 1017-1274
Language: English
Page range: 143 - 169
Submitted on: Apr 6, 2022
Accepted on: Nov 4, 2022
Published on: Feb 7, 2023
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
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